Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
Cry Wolf Quotes
In reviewing the proposed form mandated by S.51, it appears that much of the information required would not be useable….[and] The costs to small businesses of measuring such emissions would be staggering.
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B. Michel Robin, chairman of Government Affairs, Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association.
We estimate it will take approximately 9 man-months to meet the law’s mandates for each plant. Considering that E. F. Houghton has six plants in the United States, it would consume 4 _ man-years to meet S.51’s proposed paperwork burden.
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B. Michel Robin, chairman of Government Affairs, Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association.
[Requiring small businesses to report their toxic releases would] cost thousands of dollars for over 100,000 small business facilities, many of which have profits in the $10,000 range.
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George Bush’s Small Business Administration feared that the cost of the right-to-know law would be prohibitive.
[Mandating that businesses share trade secrets with the EPA is a] formidable burden [that may] ruin many businesses.
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From Joel R. Burcat & Arthur K. Hoffman, “The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986: An Explanation of Title III of SARA”. Only date available: January, 1988.
